Lon Cooper is a hiker, photographer, maker of Pacific Crest Trail maps, and volunteer blogger for the Pacific Crest Trail Association. He lives near San Diego, CA and is known as "Halfmile" on the PCT. Lon's other web sites include www.pctwater.com, www.pctmap.net, and www.lon.net.

Welcome to the blog of the Pacific Crest Trail Association. Check back often for news about the trail.

From Mexico to Canada

On journeys long and short, hikers and horseback riders pass through many of America’s wilderness crown jewels along the Pacific Crest Trail.

But the trail is about more than mountains and geography. It’s about people and the idea that we, as a society, can preserve our most wild and beautiful places so that future generations can see what we have seen and feel what we have felt. The Pacific Crest Trail Association is singularly focused on keeping this path wild and open for future generations.